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Thesis Statement: Punk and Ska are very popular forms of music, similar in some ways and yet different in others. Punk and Ska are two very popular styles of music right now and they both draw the same crowd, but they are very diverse. There are differences in ....

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.... not a lot of other effects like flangers and wahs. It is fairly easy to hear what they are playing. Although ska doesn’t really use distortion, they do use a sound gate that makes their guitar sound very snappy. Ska also uses a lot of unusual effects just for fun. Punk bands have a lead guitar player, and sometimes a rhythm guitarist who backs up the lead guitarist. In ska, all the guitars make quick, snappy, upward strums and quickly palm mute the strings. All of the guitarists do the same thing, and occasionally someone will have a solo. One of the other ways ska and punk can be identified is by the beat. In punk music, the beat of the drum ....